"Weird Beard" Charlie Peterson
was born William D Peterson in Baltimore and raised in South Dakota. From
his first radio job in Sidney Nebraska at KSID in 1959 to a sales job at
KQV in the mid 1980's, Weird Beard had quite a broadcasting career. Charlie
Peterson did it all. From deejay to news to production to sales to program
director. Some of Charlie's stops included Cheyenne Wyoming where he did
tv as "Captain 5", Garden City S.D., Salt Lake City, and Ogden Utah where
he had his first programming opportunity. Charlie programmed at WSGN in
Birmingham and in Tampa before coming to Pittsburgh to KQV. After KQV,
Charlie went to Houston to ABC's KXYZ and then back to Pittsburgh as program
director at KDKA from spring 1970 - 1972 and WWSW from 1972 - 1976.
He worked in Cleveland as pd for a short time at WJW.

Charlie joined KQV in January
1966 from WINQ in Tampa where he was operations manager. It was at KQV
where Charlie was production director during the week, but became Weird
Beard on weekends. Weird Beard was fun to listen to because he had fun
on the air on KQV. CharlIe Peterson remained at KQV until 1969 when he
transfered to Houston to take over as program director at WXYZ.

After many successful years
in radio, CharlIe called it quits and took up a new career in advertising
and photography. He had his own advertising agency for a while and took
up photography taking pictures for billboards and buses among others.